Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "The Myth of US Military Infallibility" video.

Vietnam and Afghanistan are TERRIBLE examples as they quickly turned into PROXY WARS for the USSR and USA. Your analysis stinks. The ultimate kicker is atomic warfare. Nations with vast atomic arsenals can only be defeated -- in the traditional sense -- because they accept defeat. Defeat can't be forced upon them. America is not deemed a super-power anymore. It is referred to as the Ultra-Power... dominating financially, culturally, militarily, diplomatically, economically -- all by vast gaps in potency. There is no other nation like it across all of history. Its navy can shut down the oceanic trade of any other power -- or combination of powers. It even controls the flow of money (SWIFT) and prints the world's reserve currency. The latter causes the rest of the planet to fund its defense budge -- in a loopy round of 'bout way. ( I'd need a video to explain it. )
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@FakeSchrodingersCat Years ago I posted how to utterly defeat Tehran -- and you don't go there to defeat the mullahs. A year and a half later, I ruefully discovered that the mullahs had read my post. For they had addressed EVERY single weakness -- and right down my punch list! (This dates back fifteen-years ago.) The KEY is that Iran is a net importer of food, medicine and many other critical items for modern living. It pays for them, same as ever, by exporting crude oil. It can NEVER block the strait -- as it is the only viable path for its own imports. The mullahs would have epic riots if the strait were mined. The US defeated Japan without stepping foot on the Home Islands. Iran would be defeated largely the same way. No occupation army would ever be sent over -- especially after the Iraqi experience. BTW, Iraq is a river bound nation. Iran is actually pretty huge -- as in France and Germany combined -- and then some.
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@FakeSchrodingersCat Where do you get this cluck notion? The USA NEVER embargoes medicine EVER. It's ALWAYS on the not-embargoed list. Instead, what ALWAYS happens (See Saddam and Kim) is that the TYRANT(S) claim that they are being cut-off from medicine. This is the pitch that they spit out to their prisoners and to the World Wide Press. The reality is that they don't give a hoot about dead babies. Heck, they want dead babies. They regard this or that fraction of their own population to be ethnic enemies. (See Swamp Arabs, the Southern Shia of Iraq. Saddam was conducting full on genocide, Hitler style.) [ Under the Food-for-Oil program the UK and US were permitting limited exports. Saddam bought off the USSR, France, Canada and the UN. He then proceeded to work his way around the UN sanctions -- and was well on his way to destroying the credibility of the UNSC. Plainly this is news to you. Saddam bought Kofi's 'vote' by kicking Big, Easy, Money to his son. He bought off Canada by corrupting some key officials. Until Volker's audit/ investigation no-one suspected that Canada was on Saddam's pad. That Paris and Moscow had been bought off was too obvious. Both were shameless about it. Interestingly, France cost Saddam more than the Soviet Union.] {BTW, Saddam was deposed by the UK and US BECAUSE he was about to destroy the UNSC -- make it a nullity. This had happened in the 1930s with the League of Nations -- and Japan's invasion of China showed that the LoN could be entirely disregarded. WWII consequently followed. THAT'S what motivated Blair and Bush to invade Iraq. (Spain, too)} As for Iran, that nation has the world's second largest natural gas reserves. There is NO WAY that atomic power plants make ANY kind of economic sense for Tehran. They're money down a rat-hole for Iran. Big Money. ALL of the sanctions would evaporate if the mullahs would drop their obsession with nuking Jerusalem and Washington DC... if they'd stop chanting "Death to America; death to Israel" every single holiday. If Tehran would stop hooking up with Moscow and Beijing -- the two most expansionist powers of our time. Like Hitler, Stalin and Mao -- the CCP is obsessed with conquering the planet. The West's response is containment. All three nations are simply being contained as best as can be. They are NOT happy about aid containment. Their elites are wedded to the idea that they must suck the blood out of every nation that they can lay their hands on. Globalization has done a pretty good job of sucking America dry... but Beijing is doing the same thing EVERYWHERE.
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@FakeSchrodingersCat Saddam had free and easy access to money and whatnot. He made sure that medicine WAS imported -- for himself and his cronies. They never lacked anything. Ditto for the mullahs -- much to the bitterness of their prisoners. BTW, the mullahs have entirely evaded sanctions -- when they wish to -- by transferring gold to Turkey as payment. Yup. There's been a HUGE, behind the scenes scandal with Erdogan and his son plying this trade. Eventually, the gold transfers have been so massive that the marketplace has noticed. Your premise is thus full of holes. Likewise, Kim has found endless ways of evading sanctions. Those Norks really know the ropes. Assad has also proven adept at sanctions busting. Turkey is the gateway nation for both Iran and Syria. It's a poorly kept secret -- except to the common man on the street. It's a question of priorities. The tyrant cliques ALWAYS place the medical interests of their prisoners in last place. Then they jump to the pity-phone to decry how their victims suffer. That's how the game is played -- every last time. Yes, it's totally phony. The need for atomic reactors for electricity is totally phony.... glaringly so. Look at our own numbers. No utility can advocate atomic power in the face of today's natural gas prices. They're so cheap that coal mines are shutting down. Well, the numbers are even MORE extreme in Iran. She has natural gas coming out of her ears. (The Pars field also reaches into Qatar. Look at its exports! Qatar has the smaller fraction of that staggering reservoir.) Lastly, up until Trump, Japan was always exempted WRT importing Iranian crude oil. Now facing Beijing, Tokyo has decided to really jump on board the Trump diplomatic bandwagon. Saudi Arabia made a side-deal such that KSA is replacing every Iranian barrel with a Saudi barrel -- for Japan. Indeed, that's Iran's REAL problem. The Saudis are stealing its customers. That's why Trump's embargo has been so devastating to Tehran. Naturally, Iran is using the Yemeni war to go after EXACTLY those refineries that are stealing its customer base. Check out today's news. Yeah, it's not a co-incidence. The "can't buy medicine because of evil Trump" is a trope without validation.
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